Eurotrack: Vietnam All entries related to Vietnam, newest first. tag:eurotrack.ai,2026:en:en/countries/vietnam 2026-11-02T06:00:00Z Eurotrack 📉 Ecco to close factories in Portugal and Vietnam, cutting 2,450 jobs (Denmark / Portugal / Vietnam) tag:eurotrack.ai,2026:7a4e9527:en 2026-11-02T06:00:00Z The Danish shoemaker is closing two of its own factories because of overcapacity, in Portugal with 650 staff and in Vietnam with 1,400; production will continue in Indonesia, Thailand and China. A further 400 jobs in global and regional functions go by the end of the year, 80 of them in Denmark, and the owning family is injecting €50m of fresh capital. The total of 2,450 jobs is the sum of the three figures (DR, 2 Nov 2026; second source: Børsen, 2 Nov 2026). — Sources: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/penge/ecco-lukker-fabrikker-i-udlandet-flere-end-2-000-mister-jobbet · https://borsen.dk/nyheder/virksomheder/ecco-fyrer-over-2400-ansatte-og-lukker-fabrikker 🌍 VinSpeed and Siemens Mobility sign turnkey deal for Vietnam high-speed rail (Vietnam) tag:eurotrack.ai,2026:b142c69b:en 2026-09-22T06:00:00Z VinSpeed (Vingroup) and Siemens Mobility have signed a turnkey contract worth up to EUR 1 billion for the Hanoi–Quang Ninh and Ben Thanh–Can Gio lines; Siemens will supply ten Velaro Novo trains with communications and electrification systems. Ground was broken on the roughly 120 km Hanoi–Quang Ninh line on 12 April 2026, and work on the Ho Chi Minh City line began in December 2025; completion of both is expected in the fourth quarter of 2028 (LOK Report, 22 Sep 2026). — Sources: https://www.lok-report.de/news/uebersee/vietnam-vinspeed-und-siemens-mobility-unterzeichnen-turnkey-vertrag-und-vertiefen-die-zusammenarbeit-beim-ausbau-des-hochgeschwindigkeitsverkehrs-in-vietnam.html · https://www.lok-report.de/news/uebersee/vietnam-spatenstich-fuer-das-hochgeschwindigkeitsbahnprojekt-hanoi-quang-ninh-unter-beteiligung-von-vingroup-und-siemens.html 📜 France moves to ratify EU-Vietnam investment pact tag:eurotrack.ai,2026:1e97ac2d:en 2026-07-27T06:00:00Z On 27 July 2026 the French council of ministers approved the bill ratifying the EU–Vietnam investment protection agreement signed back in 2019. The agreement only enters into force once every member state has ratified it. — Source: https://www.elysee.fr/emmanuel-macron/2026/07/27/compte-rendu-du-conseil-des-ministres-du-lundi-27-juillet-2026